Most languages I've completed coursework for and for VB6 I completed microsoft certification tests.
Wow. Congratulations, you're mediocre. :o> Your comment about Visual Studio is complete BS.
Really? Is it? For a commercial product I would expect it to be at least as good as Eclipse (which is free). Not only does it have autocomplete, if you hit f1 you will almost always get detailed help.
Autocomplete? Please. Lets see: Refactoring tools? No. Reverse Engineering? No. CASE tools? No. Automatic stub generation of inherited, abstract methods? No. Optimise imports functionality? No. Built-im support for proper concurrent versioning systems, that don't suck (ie. not SourceSafe)? No.If autocomplete is the only feature you find lacking in the BlitzMAX IDE, I really don't see how you have anytihng to complain about.
And regarding the supposedly detailed, but mostly useless MSDN, the only good thing about it is that it's indexed by Google. Oh and it's such a joy how they give their own cute little names to data structures too. I find csharpconer.com and codeproject.com much more useful.